May 7, 2008 | Technical
I thought this was interesting: Home Depot now has review sections for each of it’s products that allow people to not only comment, but Facebook, Digg, and del.icio.us their posts. One of our staff also discovered that even reviewers get reviewed, so one could...
Apr 29, 2008 | Technical
That’s less the grass and more the new product conceptualized by design strategy firm Kaleidoscope. With it’s slick e-reading interface, stylus enabled note taking, and at an estimated cost of only $100, Papyrus woos students and instructors away from said...
Apr 17, 2008 | Technical
Ok, well apparently we’re a month and four days short on the notice, but Google Books has opened up their API enough that developers can pull link information from the Google Books db on any item. Here’s a shortlist of what we can do now*… Link to...
Apr 16, 2008 | Technical
My answer right away to this question is ‘anybody’s guess’ because the rate of change on the web is so rapid, it could jump from any state in a matter of weeks. However, Eric Karjaluoto of SmashLab design has just posted some interesting reflections...
Apr 3, 2008 | Technical
It may be small news that our little research lab has been ‘put on the map’ so to speak; but the fact that Google has now opened up Google Maps for user generated content is definitely no small thing. Now anyone – regardless whether you have a...
Apr 1, 2008 | Technical
“Websites should actually be living and breathing entities, that should expand and contract with their readers and their users. I feel that in e-commerce and online bookselling in general, the people have all disappeared; you can’t see the faces...
